Venice film festival 2012: The Master - video review

One of the most anticipated films at this year's Venice film festival, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, played to a packed house. Following Philip Seymour Hoffman's charismatic religious leader and sometime follower Joaquin Phoenix, the film's story offers up some striking similarities to the early career of L Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. Xan Brooks and Peter Bradshaw submit to The Cause and give their verdicts